Posted 06 June 2014

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition coming soon to PS Vita

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Hey everyone! I’m Corey Rollins from Klei Entertainment, and I’m happy to announce Don’t Starve: Giant Edition is coming to PlayStation Vita and will include both Don’t Starve and the Reign of Giants Expansion. Now, we’re not sure of an exact release date yet, but it’s happening.

Since we first released Don’t Starve: Console Edition on PS4, a lot of people said they’d love to play it on the go with their Vita. Well, we agree!

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition will include the original Don’t Starve along with all of the updates currently released on PC and PS4, including the multi-levelled caves update and the discoverable “Adventure Mode” that puts your survival skills to the test with multiple randomly-generated unique worlds as you try to escape your wild and strange prison.

Along with the original version of Don’t Starve, you’ll also get the Reign of Giants Expansion included! So Vita players will get access to the original nine characters and two new additions. Play as Wigfrid, a stage actress who went a bit too far with method acting on her latest role, an ancient Valkyrie, or Webber, a young boy who lives inside the spider who tried to eat him long ago.

The Reign of Giants expansion adds new seasonal challenges including the torrential rain falls of spring and the blistering heat of summer. You’ll also get new procedurally-generated biomes filled to the brim with new creatures and gatherables that will either help you survive — or kill you. Oh, and Giants.

We’ve also optimized the game to take advantage of Vita’s touch features. Navigation for menus, maps, items, and crafting are all touch friendly, or you can use the classic button navigation.

We’ll have more details in the coming months, but we wanted to confirm it’s happening. We’re also working on the final steps to bring the Reign of Giants Expansion to PS4. So expect an update on that release soon.

The fact that I hate your overwhelming presence on this blog aside (since it’s not contributing to any of the discussions here or important topics regarding PlayStation), I give you the well-intended advice to find something better to do with your time. Why are you not playing the games you appear to care about? Or go do something outside, it’s getting warm and sunny. Socialise. Whatever – but don’t waste your precious time annoying everyone else on this blog and disrespecting the honest work of the people at Sony and game developers.

That’s very unlikely. Since the version to be released on the Vita is not identical to the PS4 version (included DLC), cross-buy is most likely not going to happen. Developers seem to get around the coss.buy pressure by not releasing on all platforms at the same time and including DLC to creat different versions. This may be regarded as good or bad; Everyone likes the value of cross-buy but the developers need to make money, too.

Don’t Starve is coming to Vita, you say Corey? This makes me VERY happy! I’m an unabashed indie nut, and as far as I’m concerned, it really doesn’t get much better than the utterly sterling Don’t Starve :-)